Jason S. Egginton

TL;DR: A conceptual framework of issues descriptive of burden of treatment from the perspective of the complex patient is built, as a first step in the development of a new patient-reported measure.

TL;DR: In this survey about health care cost containment, US physicians reported having some responsibility to address health care costs in their practice and expressed general agreement about several quality initiatives to reduce cost but reported less enthusiasm for cost containment involving changes in payment models.

TL;DR: A comprehensive patient-reported measure of treatment burden can help to better characterize the impact of treatment and self-management burden on patient well-being and guide care toward minimally disruptive medicine.

TL;DR: Patients attempt to lessen the experience of treatment burden using a variety of personal, social, and health care resources to provide a more complete picture of how patients fit complex self-care into their daily lives.

TL;DR: Available measures of treatment burden in single diseases can inform derivation of a patient-centered measure of the construct in patients with multiple chronic conditions, and patients should take part in developing the measure to ensure salience and relevance.